Don’t let the bill’s title fool you from the contents of the text.
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From https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/S-209/first-reading
Age-verification and age-estimation methods
(2) Before prescribing any age-verification or age-estimation method under paragraph (1)(b), the Governor in Council must ensure that the method
(a) is highly effective;they’ll bullshit their way through that one, no way you can make that “highly effective”. It’s all political posturing with the “protect our children” pretext, with the goal of eroding privacy without accomplishing the initial goal whatsoever.
The text of the bill
Defence — age verification or age estimation
7 (1) It is not a defence to a charge under section 5 that the organization believed that the young person referred to in that section was at least 18 years of age unless the organization implemented a prescribed age-verification or age-estimation method to limit access to the pornographic material made available for commercial purposes to individuals who are at least 18 years of age.
(d) collects and uses personal information solely for age-verification or age-estimation purposes, except to the extent required by law
pornographic material means any photographic, film, video or other visual representation, whether or not it was made by electronic or mechanical means, the dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a person’s genital organs or anal region or, if the person is female, her breasts, but does not include child pornography as defined in subsection 163.1(1) of the Criminal Code. (matériel pornographique)
Sexualizing women’s breasts!?!? The senator is a prude.
Normally Senator are old fart that don’t understand shit … so yeah
spreading like virus smh
But how, and why?
How can it be globally coordinated when nobody knows why its being globally coordinated.
Someone did some digging and linked Meta to shadow organizations sponsoring these bills, and suggested that it’s a way to improve advertising because they can like real identity to activity. I have no evidence though
Just read about this this morning, might contemplate another switcharoo… https://agelesslinux.org/
This age verification has been talked about for years now, but this is just privacy invasion with a veil of “save the children”, which it won’t help in the least. Education and parenting might help with protecting the children, but a good number of parents don’t have the time as they did 40-50 years ago due to suppressed wages over a lifetime and as such -both- parents now work more hours than their parents/grandparents had to.
There are parental controls and apps for almost everything. You don’t need to strip away everyones last bit of privacy, just because you refuse to make no time for your children.
We’ll see how it plays out but I am at least heartened by sections e and f, especially as they explicitly mention photo based methods of age verification earlier in the bill, which means you don’t necessarily have to provide ID.
Age-verification and age-estimation methods
(2) Before prescribing any age-verification or age-estimation method under paragraph (1)(b), the Governor in Council must ensure that the method
© maintains user privacy and protects user personal information;
(d) collects and uses personal information solely for age-verification or age-estimation purposes, except to the extent required by law;
(e) limits the collection of personal information to what is strictly necessary for the age verification or age estimation ;
(f) destroys any personal information collected for age-verification or age-estimation purposes once the verification or estimation is completed ; and
(g) generally complies with best practices in the fields of age verification and age estimation, as well as privacy protection.
“Oopsie woopsie we forgor to delete and it wasn’t secure so now everyone’s ids are compromised uwu.”
What id?
